Miami Project

Eli Ridgway Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent paintings and groups of works on paper by San Francisco artist Amy Ellingson. The artist's work explores the dichotomy between digital processes and traditional painting methodologies. All of her imagery, whether geometrically intact or abstracted and chaotic, is comprised of a vocabulary of very simple forms that are digitally manipulated. The paintings consist of many interrelated layers of repeating geometric forms — primarily straight lines and arcs, the basic building blocks of any shape or typography.

Ellingson replicates these basic elements into an increasingly complex field that she then renders in discreet layers of oil and encaustic paint. Using ephemeral, digitally-generated images exclusively as her source material, she creates paintings that physically assert themselves through the materiality and permanence of historical painting media. The translation from the digital to the real is paramount.